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Flexible periodic points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2014

CHRISTIAN BONATTI
Affiliation:
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, CNRS – UMR 5584, Université de Bourgogne, 9 av. A. Savary, 21000 Dijon, France email bonatti@u-bourgogne.fr
KATSUTOSHI SHINOHARA
Affiliation:
Collaborative Research Center for Innovative Mathematical Modelling, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1-Cw601 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8505, Japan email herrsinon@07.alumni.u-tokyo.ac.jp, shinohara@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Abstract

We define the notion of ${\it\varepsilon}$-flexible periodic point: it is a periodic point with stable index equal to two whose dynamics restricted to the stable direction admits ${\it\varepsilon}$-perturbations both to a homothety and a saddle having an eigenvalue equal to one. We show that an ${\it\varepsilon}$-perturbation to an ${\it\varepsilon}$-flexible point allows us to change it to a stable index one periodic point whose (one-dimensional) stable manifold is an arbitrarily chosen $C^{1}$-curve. We also show that the existence of flexible points is a general phenomenon among systems with a robustly non-hyperbolic two-dimensional center-stable bundle.

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Research Article
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press, 2014 

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